Oppo Find 5 Photos and Specs Allegedly Leak (More)

Chinese mobile phone maker Oppo has been recently rumored to plan the release of a new Android-based smartphone on the market, one that would pack a large, 5-inch touchscreen display, and which will sport the name of Oppo Find 5. No official info on the device has been provided as of now, although leaks on this phone abundantly emerged on the web, but it appears that we’re finally nearing its official launch date. Moreover, it seems that there will be a white flavor of the smartphone as well, and a new photo with it available via CNMO appears meant to prove that, though the outer design of the handset appears different from the black version we’ve seen before, suggesting that this could be another phone from the company. However,...

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AT&T’s Nokia Lumia 920 with Downgraded Battery Performance

AT&T is the exclusive wireless carrier of Nokia Lumia 920 in the United States, providing its users with the possibility to enjoy the benefits of LTE connectivity on this Windows Phone 8 handset as well, though it all comes with a price, it seems. The wireless carrier’s flavor of the new mobile phone will hit shelves with lower battery performance than the International version, at least this is what Nokia’s own website shows. Lumia 920 will offer 9 hours of talk time at AT&T, 320 hours of standby and 52 hours of music playback, compared to 10h, 400h and 67h touted for the international flavor, WPCentral has found out. Moreover, it seems that Lumia 820’s battery suffered a downgrade as well, with 7.5h of talk time,...

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HP ProLiant Servers Smash Performance Record With AMD Processors

Advanced Micro Devices wants today to be a special day, and though the Hondo Z-60 APU should well enough offset NVIDIA's release of the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, it never hurts to have another ace up one's sleeve. As it happens, AMD does, indeed, have one last ace: HP's ProLiant BL465c Gen8 servers, based on the Opteron 6200 processor series. The system, as the highest volume selling blade in the world, achieved a score of 59.99 at 62 tiles, 40 percent better than the previous record of 42.79 at 36 tiles. For those who don't know, VMmark is a free software tool that data center administrators can use to measure the performance and scalability of virtualization platforms. "The new VMware benchmark is a further indication...

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Samsung Made 10-Inch Google Nexus Tablet, Has 2560 x 1600 Resolution

The contest for performance and quality on the tablet market has already catapulted 10.1-inch displays to resolutions beyond that of most monitors and TVs, but there isn't much we can do about it. Even Google knows this, and they don't seem to have any qualms about one-upping Apple, the company that started all this. Since the third-generation iPad has a 9.7-inch display, nicknamed Retina, with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 (264 pixels per inch), Google has decided, according to CNET, to launch a slate with a 2560 x 1600 screen of 10.1 inches. It will bear the Google Nexus brand but, unlike the Nexus 7, it will be fashioned by Samsung, whose brand will sit on the slate, next to Google's own. This arrangement is similar to...

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iPad Mini Images Leak

In the days leading up to a rumored Apple event for an even more rumored Apple product, Aussie Sonny Dickson, a researcher for 9to5Mac, has released photos on his Twitter and Instagram purporting to show the new iPad mini. Reported to issue press invitations tomorrow for an event to be held later this month, Apple Inc. is said to be coming out with a new version of its popular iPad, this time sporting a 7.85-inch display, the processor from the iPad 2, and the new Lightning connector. Images published by Sonny Dickson seem to show the tablet’s finalized design. Everything in the photos is consistent with the latest hardware leaks but, as usual, nothing is confirmed until Tim Cook & Co. lift the cloth off the device on stage. The...

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Latest iPhone 5 Issue: Screen Flickering

It’s almost as if the iPhone 5 has become the hottest target for critics all over the web, mostly thanks to Apple’s success (bound to draw some negative attention from rivals), but also thanks to some real issues with the handset. The latest such issue is being reported by Mashable whose staff has been able to reproduce a screen flickering bug that occurs on the phone’s software-based virtual keyboard. The problem does seem to be widespread. The report says the issue has been experienced by several iPhone 5 owners, and there’s a thread over at Apple Support Communities that attests this claim. The flickering mostly occurs when users visit the App Store on their handsets and bring up the keyboard for a search. The video...

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BlackBerry 10 Handsets Only in March 2013

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the release of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, as well as of new handsets running under the platform, yet it seems that we might not see them made available for another half a year. The company has already confirmed plans to launch its new devices in the first quarter of the next year, claiming that the OS wouldn’t have been ready for a late 2012 release, yet it appears that it might have actually delayed the release a bit more than expected. Many have hoped that the handset vendor would be capable of delivering the new phones in early 2013, maybe even January, yet Jefferies analyst Peter Misek suggested in a research note that Forbes has seen that March...

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Nokia Releases Fixed Nokia Music for Belle FP2

Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has made available for download a new flavor of the Nokia Music application for devices running under the Belle FP2 operating system. The platform was made available for download last week for the company’s 808 PureView handsets, yet it was pulled shortly after, due to a series of issues, one of which caused Nokia Music to stop working. As it turns out, the company has managed to find the problem and fix it, and is now making an updated flavor of the Nokia Music application available for Belle FP2 users. Those who would like to grab it should either go to the Nokia Update app on their phones and search for it, or connect the device to a PC and fire up the Nokia Suite desktop software...

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Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti WindForce OC 1GB Graphics Adapter

We almost skipped this product entirely, believing it was the same as the video board we wrote about yesterday (October 8, 2012), but it really is a different card. Called GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC 1GB (part number GV-N65TOC-1GI), it is quite similar, but only has 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM instead of two, and the single-fan WindForce cooler. That's what allows it to sell for 145.32 Euro / $145, instead of 169 Euro / $169. Spec-wise, the board isn't all that unusual, though with the GPU running at 1032 MHz (faster than the stock 928 MHz) and the memory at 5.4 GHz (over 128-bit interface), it is faster than most other GTX 650 Ti models. That said, Gigabyte tossed in its Ultra Durable components too (Ferrite Core Choke, Low RDS on...

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